The aim of the article by David McNeill is to illustrate the phenomena, which is recently very common in Japan - matchmaking. Arranging marriages of “parasite single” Japanese people by their anxious parents at special conventions. It is not only anxiety that forces parents to take such radical steps. They are actually irradiated with the fact that their thirty-year old offspring, who are spoiled with too lavish lifestyle, do not intend to start living on their own. A vast number of Matrimonial Agencies do their best in order to ease parents' life. Special profiles of each and every person are prepared where factors considered in matchmaking like: income, age and blood group are specified. Parents, like Mr. Takashi can choose a perfect, in their view, match. Although, practices like that seem rather unethical, it is the only way to tackle the growing problem of population decline.

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